August 2012 - Users - libvirt List Archives

[libvirt-users] CPU Flags libvirt 0.9.12
by Michael Beham 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hi, I?m using libvirt version 0.9.12 under Debian Squeeze with and AMD Opteron 4280. Executing the virsh capabilities command only show me the following flags: <cpu> <arch>x86_64</arch> <model>Opteron_G4</model> <vendor>AMD</vendor> <topology sockets='1' cores='8' threads='2'/> <feature name='nodeid_msr'/> <feature name='wdt'/> <feature name='skinit'/> <feature name='ibs'/> <feature name='osvw'/> <feature name='cr8legacy'/> <feature name='extapic'/> <feature name='cmp_legacy'/> <feature name='fxsr_opt'/> <feature name='mmxext'/> <feature name='osxsave'/> <feature name='monitor'/> <feature name='ht'/> <feature name='vme'/> </cpu> Should not there be more flags supported by the CPU, for example the SVM-Flag for virtualization because executing cat /proc/cpuinfo gives me quite a lot of more flags and also the SVM Flag. Cheers, Mike

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[libvirt-users] Determine state of the guest OS/kernel from host
by Harish Patil 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hello, Is there a way to determine state of the qemu/kvm guest OS (rebooting/working/hung etc) from the host. I'm not referring to the qemu domain state itself Thanks in advance. >harish

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[libvirt-users] Unable to load library 'virt'
by zhijun liu 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

Hi,all now ,an old problem I really cann't resolved ,in my window7(64bit) use libvirt-0.4.7.jar to conn server System.setProperty("jna.library.path", "D:/Program Files/Libvirt/bin"); conn = new Connect("qemu+tcp://192.168.1.106/system",true); the exception is Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Unable to load library 'virt': ÕҲ»µ½ָ¶¨ PS:in cmd line i want to connect sever is no problem ,like this: virsh -c qemu+tcp://192.168.1.106/system, it's ok thanks in advance!!!

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Re: [libvirt-users] Excluding RAW disk from snapshot
by Trey Dockendorf 04 Aug '12

04 Aug '12

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:58 AM, Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com> wrote: > On 08/02/2012 10:53 AM, Trey Dockendorf wrote: > > Did you mean for this to go to the list? Others might benefit from the > answer. > >>>> >>>> <domainsnapshot> >>>> <name>20120802</name> >>>> <description>oVirt 3.1 upgrade</description> >>>> <disks> >>>> <disk name='vda' snapshot='yes' /> >>>> <disk name='vdb' snapshot='no' /> >>>> </disks> >>>> </domainsnapshot> >>>> >>>> When I try the snapshot I get this error... >>>> > >> Here's the new XML >> >> <domainsnapshot> >> <name>20120802</name> >> <description>oVirt 3.1 upgrade</description> >> <disks> >> <disk name='vdb' snapshot='no' /> >> </disks> >> </domainsnapshot> >> > > Ah, right - snapshot is a tri-state: 'no', 'internal', and 'external', > so 'yes' is not a valid state (although currently only 2 of the 3 states > are supported for qemu: 'no' and 'external'). > >> Now I get this error >> >> >> # virsh snapshot-create --disk-only dc-vmarchitect dc-vmarchitect_ss.xml >> error: operation failed: Failed to take snapshot: unknown command: >> 'snapshot_blkdev' > > That's a sign of your qemu being too old to support disk snapshots > (older qemu only supports system checkpoint internal snapshots). > >> >> I do not know if this could be an issue, but after this wasn't working >> with libvirt-0.9.4, I did "yum update qemu-img qemu-kvm libvirt" and >> am now at the versions listed in previous email. I did not do a full >> system upgrade or reboot as this is a heavily loaded production >> system. Is this the case where the VM is running as the previous >> version of qemu-kvm ? >> >> Thanks >> - Trey >> > > -- > Eric Blake eblake(a)redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > Replying back to list, accidently missed reply-all. Could it be the case that since I upgraded libvirt and qemu while all the VMs were running, that the VM has to be restarted to take on the updated version's capability? If this isn't something yet supported in EL6.3, which I hope it is, is there any other way to perform a snapshot and exclude a disk aside from temporarily detaching it from the VM? Thanks - Trey

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[libvirt-users] How to connect to local hpyervisor by libvirt?
by 何鑫 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Hi libvirt team, I suffered some troubles. Could you please give me some advices? Our team plan to control more then 100 android emulators, however, we failed to connect to the local android emulators by libvirt. Now we have tested 2 ways. 1. Converting from QEMU args to domain XML. It's a right way to control the local QEMU built manually. But the android emulator based on QEMU modified its command a lot, so we cancelled the way. 2. Using libvirt hypervisor driver for QEMU. Actually we think the URI ---"qemu+tcp://127.0.0.1:5555/system"(the IP and port is given by android emulator) -- is theoretically available, also, we could connect to the IP successfully by socket's program, but the result is "error: server closed connection: error: failed to connect to the hypervisor". We don't figure the reason out now. Concerning about such problmes above, I have some questions? 1.Can the libvirt connect to local hypervisors by "qemu+tcp" as described above? 2.If we can't do by "qemu+tcp", could you please give us some suggestoins? Thanks a lot!

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[libvirt-users] test - ignore
by Harish Patil 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

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[libvirt-users] Excluding RAW disk from snapshot
by Trey Dockendorf 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

I have an oVirt engine node that currently runs the system on a qcow2 based virtual disk, and an NFS export volume on RAW. I'd like to take a snapshot before a somewhat risky upgrade of oVirt and can't with the raw image attached. Looking at the documentation for the snapshot XML, I created this XML file for the snapshot <domainsnapshot> <name>20120802</name> <description>oVirt 3.1 upgrade</description> <disks> <disk name='vda' snapshot='yes' /> <disk name='vdb' snapshot='no' /> </disks> </domainsnapshot> When I try the snapshot I get this error... # virsh snapshot-create dc-vmarchitect dc-vmarchitect_ss.xml error: argument unsupported: unable to handle disk requests in snapshot This occurred on both libvirt-0.9.4 and after an upgrade to libvirt-0.9.10 Current system is CentOS 6.2 with 6.3 versions of qemu/libvirt qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.1.x86_64 qemu-img-0.12.1.2-2.295.el6_3.1.x86_64 libvirt-client-0.9.10-21.el6_3.3.x86_64 libvirt-python-0.9.10-21.el6_3.3.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.10-21.el6_3.3.x86_64 According to the documentation, http://libvirt.org/formatsnapshot.html, the disk features should be available since 0.9.5. Is this still missing or have I created an invalid XML? Thanks - Trey

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[libvirt-users] Using virsh to load scripts for the guest machine
by Mauricio Tavares 03 Aug '12

03 Aug '12

Right on the top of http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.2/Virtualization/chap-Virtualization-Ma…, it seems to imply you can load/send scripts to the vm guest using virsh. Is that possible? How and what are the limitations? Can you query the vm guest?

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[libvirt-users] libvirt windows error
by zhijun liu 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

hi,all,I install the libvirt windows version ,now i type "virsh" in cmd env:windows7 (ip:192.168.0.15) the error is : info : libvirt version: 0.8.8 error : vboxLookupVersionInRegistry:401 : Could not parse version number from '%VER%' what's problem.thanks advance!!!

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[libvirt-users] libvirt: how to set PV-on-HVM drivers??
by zcs 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

Hi friend. I have a problem about using libvirt now. There is a feather about HVM driver ---PV_on_HVM_drivers, in xm configure, using flag xen_platform_pci can control the feather, but in libvirt I can not find the flags to use pv-on-HVM drivers. So I want to find the answer if the libvirt can control the modules using xml file? thanks a lot. best regards. zhong.chunshan http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Linux_PV_on_HVM_drivers

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